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> The UK is plowing ahead with a hard brexit with a 52% majority on a 72% turnout (38% of the electorate explicitly said they wanted to leave) I hate this argu
by malmsteen 9y ago
> The UK is plowing ahead with a hard brexit with a 52% majority on a 72% turnout (38% of the electorate explicitly said they wanted to leave)
I hate this argument because you would just not count if brexit had been rejected as you wish it had been. You would just say "sigh it's normal, i'm happy people are not that stupid" and you wouldn't bother arguing with "stupid people".
Even if i wanted to argue on that level, you can say there was
- 38% who explicitly said they wanted to leave
- 37% who explicitly said they wanted to stay
- 25% who had no opinion / didn't care
so it make absolute sense to leave in that case.
EDIT: To be clear i'm not pro-brexit, i just think "echo chamber blah blah biaised opinions" like this one are the reason people "can't understand" election such as brexit and trump and question the legitimacy...
- dagw 9y agoso it make absolute sense to leave in that case. That's one way to look it at it. Another is to take the result and say there is no clear majority either way, and since there is no clear public majority for either option it should be up parliament to decide since that's their job.
- maccard 9y ago> I hate this argument because you would just not count if Brexit had been rejected as you wish it had been. That's absolutely not true. I never said that Brexit shouldn't happen based on that majority. I was simply pointing out that a bare majority in this case _has_ provided arbitrary power. Reading anything further into my comment is disingenuous.